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Nelson Rand

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Nelson Rand
OccupationJournalist
CitizenshipBangkok

Nelson Rand is a freelance journalist living in Bangkok, Southeast Asia. He is an editor for The Nation newspaper[1] and was a regular contributor to Asia Times Online.[2] He has also worked as a political contractor for the Embassy of Canada in Thailand.


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Rand has travelled to some of the most remote and little known conflict areas of Southeast Asia.

He published his first book, Conflict: Journeys through war and terror in Southeast Asia published by Maverick House in 2009.[3]

The book reviews his time spent with the Hmong, the Karen, the Montagnards of Vietnam and the Muslim rebels in the south of Thailand. Reviewing the obscure histories behind each of these conflicts and the atrocities behind them. The book also focuses on time spent with the Cambodian government troops tracking down the last of the Khmer Rouge in northern Cambodia.

On May 14, 2010, France 24 reported that Nelson Rand had been shot in the leg, hand and abdomen whilst covering the Red-Shirt protests in Bangkok.[4][5]

References

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  1. ^ "newbooks.asia". www.newasiabooks.org.
  2. ^ "Asia Times Online :: Southeast Asia news and business from Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam". www.atimes.com. Archived from the original on 2009-05-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ^ "Nelson Rand". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
  4. ^ "FRANCE 24 journalist seriously injured in Bangkok clashes". France 24. 2010-05-14. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
  5. ^ News (2010-05-14). "Canadian journalist Nelson Rand 'gravely wounded' in Bangkok protests | National Post". Retrieved 2019-10-23. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
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